Working Paper #2024-032
Twin transition trade based on multi-dimensional economic complexity
Trade worldwide is being reshaped by two major megatrends: advanced digitalization of production and the transition towards environmentally sustainable goods. This chapter examines for the first time the perspective of twin transition export and import diversification within a multi-dimensional economic complexity approach (Nomaler & Verspagen, 2024b, 2024d) and investigate whether this type of productive transformation perpetuates path-dependency processes in 80 countries over 2000-2018. The results suggest that an export/import productive structure based on twin transition products exhibit different economic performance, sustainability, and inequality implications. Productive specialization in these products has been very path-dependent and with a low engagement of developing countries and hence, reinforcing the core-periphery trade division. Furthermore, results suggest that developments in digital and green technological paradigms mainly take place in a selected number of countries that are already highly developed.
- Keywords
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- multi-dimensional economic complexity
- canonical correspondence analysis
- twin transition
- sustainable development
- JEL codes
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- F14
- O10
- Q01
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Menéndez De Medina, M. (2024). Twin transition trade based on multi-dimensional economic complexity (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2024-032). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=9872